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(1907-1965) U.S. intelligence officer who headed Office of Strategic Services operations in southeastern Europ, and then was head of the clandestine serv

...idered the father of strategic [[intelligence analysis]]. A veteran of the Office of Strategic Services and the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], he both had a key role in developi

...tion]] and leader of [[Iran-Contra Affair]]; attorney; in the World War II Office of Strategic Services, head of U.S. espionage operations into Nazi Germany

(1919-1998), a U.S. clandestine operations officer working both for the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency; he was the direct contact to the 1963

...duty in [[Switzerland]] where he worked with [[Allen Dulles]] of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS); while part of [[1944 assassination attempt against Hitler]], managed

...), which also spawned the intelligence and covert action organization, the Office of Strategic Services ([[OSS]]). OSS had the responsibility for [[Information_operations#Psycholo

During World War II, he was a member of the Office of Strategic Services, trained, in part, by British Security Service (MI5) officers including Dic

...Southwest Pacific Area}} for human intelligence; MacArthur had banned the Office of Strategic Services

The Offensive counterintelligence|counterespionage section of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, which worked closely with the Double-Cross committee, was named '''X-2'''

...Dulles''' (1893-1969) was a U.S. intelligence official who started in the Office of Strategic Services, was an active participant in the transformation organization of the Centra

1996 Office of Strategic Services reports indicate he may have opened numerous Swiss bank accounts for the Na

...g World War II, his father was a covert counterintelligence agent with the Office of Strategic Services posing as a cultural attaché to the American Embassy in Beirut. When he wa

}}</ref> Helms was an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) veteran, and the first DCI to h ...ref>Oral history, pp. 21-22</ref> approached him about working for the new Office of Strategic Services in its Morale Operations Branch, which produced “black” propaganda. <re

Not only the Chinese in Liuchow, but the U.S. Office of Strategic Services mission in Chungking, were seeking intelligence. The OSS was aware of Ho an

...ubstantial attention to sexuality, done by [[William Langer]] for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services.<ref>{{citation | publisher = Office of Strategic Services | year = 1943

...rather than existing intelligence operations. In the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services was spawned from the Office of War Information. United States Army Special

.... Donovan, then an intelligence advisor to Roosevelt, who was to head the Office of Strategic Services, wrote a similar letter to the President in December 1942. ...ning jumps by the "Paramarines", some individuals later transferred to the Office of Strategic Services and made use of individual parachute skills.

...S. Ambassador to Thailand]] [[William J. Donovan]], former director of the Office of Strategic Services.

In the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services was spawned from the interim Coordinator of Information, William J. Donovan

...h intelligence mission, M.5, in Kunming, China, where he met with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services mission.<ref name=Patti>{{cite book

...nly U.S. intelligence planning agency after the termination of the wartime Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), began analyzing the situation; the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]

Colby commanded field units of the Office of Strategic Services, first parachuting into France to harass German units. <ref name=Independe

...ied Intelligence Bureau]] for human intelligence; MacArthur had banned the Office of Strategic Services

...medical degree from Harvard, and was reported to have worked for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during the [[Second World War]].

...n surrender. The search was led by the counterespionage branch of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA). The search was complicated by the fact that Heinri

Others might have been formed by the Second World War Office of Strategic Services (OSS), or various interim groups that existed between 1945 and 1952, such a

...e major general who was principally assigned to intelligence agencies; the Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War, military intelligence immediately after the wa

...ad not allowed the predecessor of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], the Office of Strategic Services, to operate in his theater. U.S. intelligence, especially [[clandestine hum

...d the VNQDD took back its own identity as an anti-Japanese force. The U.S. Office of Strategic Services mission, under MAJ Archimedes Patti. had been in contact with Ho, as with t

...ongly anti-Communist, and close to [[William Donovan]], former head of the Office of Strategic Services, and of [[Joseph Kennedy]], the father of [[John F. Kennedy]].

...ne 1945 negotiations, in Chungking, China, between the French and American Office of Strategic Services, OSS MAJ Allison Thomas, formed the DEER mission to investigate Vietnamese

In a long career in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA), he defined many of the par

SEALs trace their ancestry both to Navy and Office of Strategic Services units. The first Naval organization was the Scouts and Raiders, created in

During [[World War II]], the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) had been established by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] to conduc ...published as the book ''Assessment of Men, Selection of Personnel for the office of Strategic Services''.

}}, pp. 292-293</ref> It might be noted that [[Allen Dulles]] was the Office of Strategic Services resident in Bern. It is not known if he had diplomatic contacts in Rome.

...hat may not be in the field. For example, one WWII failure took place when Office of Strategic Services (OSS) field agents broke into the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, and stole cry

The authors were Allen W. Dulles, who had served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during the Second World War and would become DCI in 1953, William Jac

...quarters was in [[Kunming]], where the [[Viet Minh]] had met with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services team during the [[Second World War]].<ref name=Patti>{{cite book

...mission was assisted by Western intelligence agencies, including the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency ([[CIA]]).<ref name=Pat ...hat both sides had missed opportunities. The U.S. had both ignored its own Office of Strategic Services (OSS) intelligence reports on Ho's nationalism, and failed, when the Truman

...(1919-1998) was a U.S. clandestine operations officer working both for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Among his many assignments

...the prestige of providing them with diplomatic COMINT. Note that while the Office of Strategic Services was a fairly autonomous WWII agency, it still, technically, reported to the

Even before the CIA was formed, a team from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and its successors that became the CIA, under MAJ Archimedes L.A. Pa

...I) William Casey was deeply involved in Iran-Contra, Casey, a World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS) clandestine operations officer, ran the Iran operation with people ou

| journal = Office of Strategic Services: Hitler Source Book

...vil war, and some of the Vietnamese politicians in exile were in China. An Office of Strategic Services team, commanded by MAJ Archimedes Patti, had been in China with the Vietnam

...vil war, and some of the Vietnamese politicians in exile were in China. An Office of Strategic Services team, commanded by MAJ Archimedes Patti, had been in China with the Vietnam

| publisher = Hyperion | ISBN=0786863870}}, pp. 123-126</ref> He told U.S. Office of Strategic Services officer Archimedes Patti that he was strongly influenced, in the 1920s, <r ...ugust 1944. <ref>Patti, pp. 54-55</ref>The analysis department of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) became aware of his activities in the [[Tuyen Quang Province|Tuyen Qu

| journal = Office of Strategic Services: Hitler Source Book

...quarters was in [[Kunming]], where the [[Viet Minh]] had met with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services team during the [[Second World War]].<ref>Patti, p. 3</ref> The Laoshan are

...intelligence agency for [[Latin America]], with some involvement with the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of CIA. After the war, the CIA developed strong operations